This collection of literary critical studies provides a selection from the many different responses which Angela Carter's works have evoked. Together, they explore most of Carter's major writings and demonstrate a variety of feminist theoretical approaches.

Angela Carter's writings have been a source of controversy since she was first published in the 1960s. Until her death in 1992 she wrote fantastical fictions and feminist political essays on sex, gender and class. This collection of literary critical studies provides a selection from the many different responses which her works have evoked. Together, they explore most of Carter's major writings and demonstrate a variety of feminist theoretical approaches.

Acknowledgements - General Editors' Preface - Introduction: Reading Angela Carter
A. Easton - Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality
M. Makinen - Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman: Feminism as Treason
S. Keenan - The Violence of Gendering: Castration Images in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Passion of New Eve, and 'Peter and the Wolf'
J. Wyatt - History and Women's Time: Heroes and Villains
G. Meaney - The Anti-Hero as Oedipus: Gender and the Postmodern Narrative in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
S. Robinson - Textualizing the Double-Gendered Body: Forms of the Grotesque in The Passion of New Eve
H. Johnson - Revamping Spectacle: Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus
M. Russo - Blond, Black and Hottentot Venus: Context and Critique in Angela Carter's 'Black Venus'
J. Matus - Angela Carter's Fetishism
C. Britzolakis - Seriously Funny: Wise Children
K. Webb - Further Reading - Notes on Contributors - Index